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Dissension
01:25
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My father always swore to me, courage is fear that said its prayers
But I’m terrified of our current state of affairs
Is there no end to this?
Can’t we peacefully coexist
A holy American and faithless anarchist
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Precariat
03:05
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Standing at an impasse forged with broken hearts and shattered glass
The death of our progress, destruction of the middle class
This calamity knows no bounds and shows no shame
It’s spit in our face and we gave hate a different name
Terror
It’s a corporate design
They keep stacking bodies on the capital shrine
Were you dazed by the flashing lights and dollar signs
Did you feel your conscience shift into a steep decline
Mind numb from what the suffocation has become
We’re all born apart of the great divide
Molded and shaped in the machine’s assembly line
With oil in our blood and diamonds in our eyes
We’ve been longing for relief not an empty compromise
I’m so goddamn discouraged by the way we live our days out
Destructively with our heads down
Aspirations, ambitions stay bound
It’s all routine
Played out scenes over cells and magazines
It’s the American dream
Or todays big sales at shopping malls
Built on grounds housing hell
Mind numb from what the suffocation has become
We’re all born apart of the great divide
Molded and shaped in the machine’s assembly line
With oil in our blood and diamonds in our eyes
We’ve been longing for relief not an empty compromise
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Zero Sum Game
04:17
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I’m on borrowed time for the days I’ve wasted
So I chase them down with a glass of hatred
Tried to taste the faith but I stuck with the spirits
Ingest with haste but I’ll never fear it
So come one and come all
It’s the greatest attraction your eyes have ever seen
We’re going to make a scene
Together we’ll watch mankind fall
Asleep at the wheel and drive this circus through a goddamn tree
Step up and pick your poison there’s so many to choose
Let’s gamble with addiction I’m all in I can’t lose
I think you’ve got your demons mixed up again
Fooled by the lifestyle and the slight of hand
If nothing good ever lasts, let’s cheers to oblivion and pour another glass
We live in a world of underachievers
Content with being comfortable and indirect yet never sober
An intellect suffering society’s hangover
So step up and pick your poison there’s so many to choose
Let’s gamble with addiction I’m all in I can’t lose
I think you’ve got your demons mixed up again
Fooled by the lifestyle and the slight of hand
If nothing good ever lasts, let’s cheers to oblivion and poor another glass
(Drink it down, smoke it up, hide yourself in clouded lungs, hazy eyes and empty cups)
It’s a cycle of staying numb
It’s out of my hands the person I’ve become
These vices take a part before they take the whole
Before they take it all
Drink it down, smoke it up
Hide yourself in clouded lungs
Hazy eyes and empty cups
But this addiction digs under my skin and every now and then I still let it in
Just to revel in the afterglow of when we danced on graves of bad decisions
It’s a cycle of staying numb
It’s out of my hands the person I’ve become
These vices take a part before they take the whole
Before they take it all
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Heartstrong
03:03
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This darkness consumes the light
Your faults and concerns, do they keep you up at night
If this doesn’t haunt you I’ll draw inspiration from what talents you left behind
Do you feel alive or dead inside
Your ghost shades the glow that gave you life
We follow suit and blindly chase the views they redefined
An illusion of comfort, a scene that’s no greener on the other side
(I promise it’s golden)
Stay wide eyed beautiful
Hold close to what matters most
(And sun-dried like the hills on the central California coast)
But Alive with hope
I find myself in what’s been lost
As pages fold over our youth becomes a fog
Our goals was what defined their love
Like hands in ticking clocks our time won’t let up
Whats moving forward one day, all still ends up stuck
(I promise it’s golden)
Stay wide eyed beautiful
Hold close to what matters most
(And sun-dried like the hills on the central California cost)
But alive with hope
(I promise it’s golden)
We follow suit and blindly chase the views they redefined
(And sun-dried)
An illusion of comfort, a scene that’s no greener on the other side
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You belong in Austin
It’s where your heart’s aways been
You said I never paid attention but I was listening
Every word still resonates
Your sense of fear, your sins and faith
And all you wish you could embrace
Were we a step or an a escape
Well maybe I was wrong
But maybe you were too
It’s just the self-destructive system that we both fell into
Symbiotic in nature with nothingness to give
Blind eyes see no perspective
Left yourself in Portland
Or what portions you had left
So damaged and it’s obvious
Destruction craves an audience
And I swear that you need help but won’t accept it
Though it kills to know I can’t give it I’ve done everything but admit that
It’s just as much on me
Maybe I was wrong
But we both know you were too
It’s the fucked up situations that you always pull me into
Symbiotic in nature with nothingness to give
Blind eyes see no perspective
But that night you lit up my eyes like a field of fireflies
And in that brief moment I could see that I was blinded by my inconsistencies
I felt my chest decompress
I laid the old me to rest
And as he haunts my dreams I’m not obsessed
I’m enlightened not blessed
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Elysian Fields
03:18
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You always swore to me you’d only admire the sky from afar
(Rather than leave)
With the clouds beyond the moon and stars
Up there is such an empty place
So open and vague and the fact that it gave you hope
It showed on your face
Now it’s so real to me
Were you so lost in emptiness that hope became a foreign phrase
Diluted and forgotten in the endless daze
I never knew how much hate a heart could hold
A constant obsession with death and depression marked you astray
Took you away but I still feel your loneliness like everyday in the worst way
I’m drowning in the thoughts and the memories
I’m sinking in your absence, in your passing
I found you in a room saying words I thought you never meant
Quite the sight for sore eyes isn’t it
Watching my stability fall apart
Highlighting my imperfections as a work of art
I just don’t think I can make things work like they did before
This comatose state won’t be ignored
I’m sorry you were so lost and empty that hope became a foreign phrase
But I won’t forget you for the rest of my days
I never knew how much hate a heart could hold
A constant obsession with death and depression marked you astray
Took you away but I still feel your loneliness like everyday in the worst way
I’m drowning in the thoughts and the memories
I’m sinking in your absence, in your passing
On your death bed
You left your final words and they read
My world’s become an empty place
Void of comfort I felt death’s embrace
With open arms I fell back
I want to see the black
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Denouement
04:36
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The world I thought I knew
Dissolved and born again
In the form of truth
I was unprepared
All of my indiscretions digested at the same time
Crushing self-awareness without a warning sign
There’s no warning sign
For the past five years I’ve been a wreck if I could find my heart I’d apologize from the bottom of it
Self-destruction is hard to admit
Staring at the aftermath of an ego death I close my eyes and catch my breath
I can’t believe I let myself get this far
Consistently tearing myself apart
Reconstruction so out of reach
Redemption’s in the wreckage
Just dig deep beneath
I’ve been avoiding divine intervention
I’ve had my head in the clouds but now I’m ready to come down
I’m hell bound
Devil on my shoulder hello my old friend
Have you come to gamble with me again
The stakes are raised I’ll put it all down on red
Or let the black send me to my end
For the past five years I’ve been a wreck if I could find my heart I’d apologize from the bottom of it
Self-destruction is hard to admit
Staring at the aftermath of an ego death I close my eyes and catch my breath
I can’t believe I let myself get this far
Consistently tearing myself apart
Reconstruction so out of reach
Redemption’s in the wreckage
Just dig deep beneath
Such destruction formed by untimely circumstance
Reality misconception through a psychedelic trance
The requiem played on
Yet there was no one to dance
All mankind caught in a loveless romance
Are we so desensitized that we’ve forgotten what’s real
Numbing life down to a complacent synthetic feel
I will not bow down to this out of touch reality
We live lifeless lives
Glorify your mortality
Hold on to every moment when you’re overwhelmed and brought to tears
So out of touch and hardened
Why is it that we can’t grasp these years
Not the lost hope or sadness but burdens we’ve conquered in times of madness
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Capstan Orlando, Florida
Anthony DeMario : Vocals
Harrison Bormann : Guitar
Andrew Bozymowski:
Bass/Vocals
Scott Fisher : Drums
Joseph Mabry : Guitar
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